Geologists warned it was inevitable that an earthquake would collapse the Three Gorges Dam. When it finally did, a wall of water six hundred feet high rushed down the Yangtze River, destroying other dams as it went. Fifteen million Chinese died in the worst natural disaster in human history.

This is what people are told. It is a lie.

Kimberly Trayne has no time for the past. She's a free woman now. There are family reunions to avoid, realm championships to win, and an AI-human hybrid in her life. Or not. It's complicated.

What she needs most of all is a vacation. Kim's...